ABSTRACT
The Bali attack, and revelations that Jemaah Islamiah, al-Qaeda's local affiliate, also intended to target international schoolchildren in Indonesia, make it clear that al-Qaeda also regarded Southeast Asia as a particularly fertile 'field of jihad'. In turn, the FBI believes al-Fuqra is responsible for several bombings and murders, which some members were among Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's killers and that it has links to al-Qaeda. If a suspicious transaction or series of transactions were detected, the names and personal details of those involved could be obtained only if a judge or other legal authority approved an application, by the intelligence analyst. Europe continues to approach terrorism as primarily a risk-management problem to be handled with a threat-based security system, whereby specific emergent risks are assessed and minimized. Due to their proximity to the Persian Gulf and the presence of radical Islamist elements, East Africa and the Horn have constituted the main focus of counter-terrorism concern in sub-Saharan Africa.
